{"product_id":"a-companion-to-mexican-history-and-culture-9781405190572","title":"A Companion to Mexican History and Culture","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Companion to Mexican History and Culture features 40 carefully chosen essays that focus on new approaches to Mexican history. Essays by a variety of international scholars serve to broaden accounts of the Mexican experience through the incorporation of ethnic, gender, environmental, and cultural studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This book is definitely a valuable contribution to the understanding of Mexican politics during the different eras and it is the first volume to incorporate a discussion of popular music in political analysis.”  (\u003ci\u003eReference Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, 2012)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Summing Up: Recommend. All levels\/libraries.\" (Choice, 1 January 2012)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Dimensions of the Mexican Experience 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART I: The Mexican Experience 11\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Living the Vida Local: Contours of Everyday Life 13\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilliam E. French\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. On the Street Corner where Stereotypes are Born: Mexico City, 1940–1968 34\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRicardo Pérez Montfort\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Consumption and Material Culture from Pre-Contact through the Porfiriato 54\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSteven B. Bunker and Víctor M. Macías-González\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Consumption and Material Culture in the Twentieth Century 83\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSteven B. Bunker and Víctor M. Macías-González\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Geographic Regionalism and Natural Diversity 119\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristopher R. Boyer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. The Cactus Metaphor 131\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Yetman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART II: The Indigenous World Before the Europeans 143\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. The Gods Depart: Riddles of the Rise, Fall, and Regeneration of Mesoamerica’s Indigenous Societies 145\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSusan Kellogg\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Painting History, Reading Painted Histories: Ethnoliteracy in Prehispanic Oaxaca and Colonial Central Mexico 163\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eElizabeth Bakewell and Byron Ellsworth Hamann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART III: The Silver Heart of the Spanish Empire: Colonial Experiences 193\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. The Gods Return: Conquest and Conquest Society (1502–1610) 195\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMatthew Restall and Robert Schwaller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. The Kingdom of New Spain in the Seventeenth Century 209\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLinda A. Curcio-Nagy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. The Enlightened Colony 230\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSusan M. Deeds\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART IV: Two Centuries of Independence: The Republican Century 249\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Independence and the Generation of the Generals, 1810–1848 251\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChriston I. Archer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. The U.S. Intervention in Mexico, 1846–1848 262\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLinda Arnold\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Republicans and Monarchists, 1848–1867 273\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eErika Pani\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. The Civilian and the General, 1867–1911 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaul Garner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSpecial Themes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. The Penal Code of 1871: From Religious to Civil Control of Everyday Life 302\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKathryn A. Sloan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. Conquering the Environment and Surviving Natural Disasters 316\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames A. Garza\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. Indigenism in General and the Maya in Particular in the Nineteenth Century 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTerry Rugeley and Michele M. Stephens\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. A Brief History of the Historia moderna de México 339\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eServando Ortoll and Pablo Piccato\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. The House at Sadi Carnot 33: Amateur Photography and Domestic Architecture in Porfirian Culture 361\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePatricia Massé\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. Disorder and Control: Crime, Justice and Punishment in Porfirian and Revolutionary Society 371\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eElisa Speckman Guerra\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22. Military and Nation in Mexico, 1821–1916 390\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen Neufeld\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART V: Two Centuries of Independence: The Revolutionary Century 405\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23. The Sonoran Dynasty and the Reconstruction of the Mexican State 407\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJürgen Buchenau\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24. Creating a Revolutionary Culture: Vasconcelos, Indians, Anthropologists, and Calendar Girls 420\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilliam H. Beezley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25. Counter Revolutionary Programs: Social Catholicism and the Cristeros 439\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaniel Newcomer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26. The Apogee of Revolution, 1934–1946 453\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSusie Porter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27. The Revolution’s Second Generation: The Miracle, 1946–1982 and Collapse of the PRI, 1982–2000 468\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoderic Ai. Camp\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSpecial Themes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28. Photographing Indian Peoples: Ethnography as Kaleidoscope 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeborah Dorotinsky\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29. Challenges, Political Opposition, Economic Disaster, Natural Disaster and Democratization, 1968 to 2000 493\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAriel Rodríguez Kuri\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30. Fighting Bacteria, the Bible, and the Bottle: Projects to Create New Men, Women, and Children, 1910–1940 505\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGretchen Pierce\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31. Environment and Environmentalism 518\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmily Wakild\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32. Peculiarities of Mexican Diplomacy 538\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMonica Rankin and Dina Berger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33. Science and Public Health in the Century of Revolution 561\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGabriela Soto Laveaga and Claudia Agostoni\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34. A Century of Childhood: Growing up in Twentieth-Century Mexico 575\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eElena Jackson Albarrán\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35. ¡De Pie y en Lucha! Indigenous Mobilizations After 1940 589\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaría L. Olin Muñoz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36. Mexican Immigration to the United States 604\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimothy J. Henderson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37. Sex, Death and Structuralism: Alternative Views of the Twentieth Century 616\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaul Gillingham\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38. For Further Research: Space, Sense, and Sensibility 633\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAgeeth Sluis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 654\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187420848471,"sku":"9781405190572","price":147.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-companion-to-mexican-history-and-culture-9781405190572","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}